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About this object

  • ID:

    Z6092

  • Production date:

    1910

  • Location:

    In Store

  • This banner was originally designed as a traditional friendship quilt by the embroiderer Ann Macbeth. Ann was head ot the embroidery department at the Glasgow School of Art. On completing the quilt she donated it to the WSPU Scottish Exhibition and Bazaar held at St Andrew Hall, Charing Cross, Glasgow in April 1910 to raise funds for the Suffragette campaign. The Votes for Women newspaper described the donation as 'A suffrage linen quilt, with a beautiful design in the colours by the well known artist, Ann Macbeth, and containing the embroidered names of hunger strikers, forms an interesting memento, and will be sold for £10'. A following entry notes that '...the quilt embroidered with the names - in their own handwriting - of all the hunger strikers...has been bought by one of the leaders, Mrs Pethick Lawrence'.
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  • Measurements

    H 2635 mm; W 2220 mm (whole object), H 2480 mm; L 2220 mm (as displayed) (overall)

  • Materials

    linen; silk; cotton

  • Last Updated

    2024-03-14

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